How to automate installer testing

Question

I\'m wondering if anyone has any best practices for automating the testing of installers on various machines with potentially different hardware / software profiles and by s

Answer 1

If you have the installer runnable from the command line, it's easy to have a script to call it automatically.

Then you can use a web app testing tool to see it the install was successful, like this one http://seleniumhq.org/ For this you will need an unique way to test a new install - like a page with the current version.